[886, 887] “Tela manu iaciunt” v. 264 above. ‘Secum,’ he turns round and turns the shield with him. Gud. gives ‘agmine’ in the margin as a variant for ‘tegmine.’ ‘Aerato’ probably not χάλκεος but χαλκόδετος (χαλκοδέτων σακέων Aesch. Theb. 160). Both brass and gold were used in the texture of Aeneas' shield: see 8. 445. ‘Silvam,’ the forest of arrows. Forb. comp. Lucan 6. 205, “densamque ferens in pectore silvam.”
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